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openarena-data package

tried installing openarena and caused crash

Asked by Jonathankavner

Binary package hint: openarena-data

Went to Add/Remove programs, picked openarena and caused a critical crash.

Can't run Add/Remove programs anymore

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak2-players.pk3'
Package: openarena-data None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/openarena-data.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: openarena-data
Title: package openarena-data None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/openarena-data.list] failed to install/upgrade: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak2-players.pk3'
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-8-eeepc i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #301435.

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Jonathankavner (jonathankavner) said : 		#1
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Jonathankavner (jonathankavner) said : 		#2
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Jonathankavner (jonathankavner) said : 		#3
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Jonathankavner (jonathankavner) said : 		#4

New to Linux and Ubuntu. Just want to make the error go away. Don't need Openarena, care more about the bug correction/elimination.

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Jonathankavner (jonathankavner) said : 		#5
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Arnaud Soyez (weboide) said : 		#6

It seems that the application couldn't write data on your disk. Do you have enough space left on your hard disk?

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Jonathankavner (jonathankavner) said : 		#7

Looks like you're right.

How do I change where the programs get installed to?

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Jonathankavner (jonathankavner) said : 		#8

err, like this:

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Arnaud Soyez (weboide) said : 		#9

You can't really change the place the program will be installed into.

The thing is every program (using synaptic or apt-get) is installed somewhere in / or /usr or /usr/share... never in your /home. So this means your root partition (aka "/") needs to have a lot of space.

I'm afraid you'll have to modify your partitions. I think what you'll have to do is run with a Live CD and use Gparted (System Menu) to modify your partitions.

(i'll convert this bug into a question.)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#10

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